Gstreamer-1.1.4 in /usr/local/lib rather than /usr/local/lib/gstreamer-1.0

[Peter Maersk-Moller]

Correction. gst-libav-1.1.4 does have an uninstall. My mistake. Sorry.


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Peter Maersk-Moller <pmaersk at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Compilling and installing gstreamer-1.1.4 plus base/good/bad/ugly/libavon
> linux  straight out of the box, I see that many if not most libraries are
> installed in /usr/local/lib rather than /usr/local/lib/gstreamer-1.0 as I
> believe was the thing gstreamer 1.0.9 did. Is this a new feature or a small
> mishap?
>
> The consequence of installing the libraries by default in /usr/local/lib
> rather than /usr/local/lib/gstreamer-1.0 is that unless you specify the
> environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH, some or many if not most of the
> libraries may not be picked up by gst-inspect and gst-launch as they search
> in /usr/local/lib/gstreamer-1.0.
>
> After installing the workaround is of course to
>
>   a) export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
>   b) rm ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry*
>
> and then rerun gst-inspect. There may also be a settings for ./configure
> while compiling the gstreamer-1.1.4, but somehow I am not convinced setting
> libdir will work without consequences.
>
> Another thing is that gst-libav-1.1.4 doesn't seem to have a 'make
> uninstall' command as the other packages have.
>
> Best regards
> Peter MM
>
>
>
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